Combined Brachytherapy and External Beam Radiotherapy in Normal Monkey Brains: —Experimental Radiation Necrosis Evaluated by Sequential Magnetic Resonance Imaging—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 203-212

  Tada, Eiji ^a   Matsumoto, Kengo ^a   Kinoshita, Kimihisa ^a   Tamesa, Nobuo ^a   Maeda, Yasuhiko ^a   Adachi, Hisashi ^a   Furuta, Tomohisa ^a   Ohmoto, Takashi ^a   Nakagawa, Tomio ^b   Sakae, Katsuyoshi ^b  

^a Okayama University   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

iridium 192 brachytherapy; magnetic resonance imaging; monkey; radiation necrosis

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRAIN NECROSIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; MACACA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY;

EID: 13144261747     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.38.203     Document Type: Article

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